all. japan's nuclear safety commission says one of the country's nuclear power plants could be going into meltdown cooling systems that several atomic reactors have failed following friday's earthquake and have reports of radioactive material has already leaked out of the quake triggered tsunami has claimed over seven hundred lives with many people missing and if you're dead. russia's emergencies ministry has prepared a six jets to really deliver doctors rescuers and medical equipment to japan should russia be able to join the possibly clear out operation of a nuclear accident in japan it can bring

a certain experience to the operation as twenty five years ago it suffered at chernobyl fallout in ukraine. well you're watching our t.v. and let's go straight to our top story the japanese emergencies ministry say it says that one of the country's a nuclear power plants might be going into a meltdown well it's just a news coming in right now there are unconfirmed reports that an eyewitness has heard an explosion those are unconfirmed reports coming from japan now five reactors in the two plants in fukushima in the north east of the country are said to be in a state of emergency now there are reports from a japanese news agency that emergency workers have managed to drop the pressure in

the reactor but still the radiation levels are a thousand times greater than normal and again that's after a cooling systems were. our flight following the eight point nine magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami from that earthquake has been massive as well the official a death toll from the disaster has reached over seven hundred it has been and will is expected to keep increasing well now let's go live to our correspondent. who is going to talk hill for us as well either it can just tell us so what is the situation on the ground what have you seen so far there in tokyo. well actually literally just arrived just got out of the taxi there's no physical damage on the ground here in the capsule tokyo got the infrastructure has definitely started as a result it's taken for an artist to get from the airport to the center of so you know normally on a bad day it takes one arc hours to two hours and sketch for different trains and

then a taxi and make the last jump to the hotel and normally as i say it's one train about an hour at the top of the trains have to go so slow at the moment six early warning about one train every two hours normally they run every five minutes or so because there are not sure about the safety of the train lines with the aftershocks been happening in the last twenty four hours or so on top of that the other parts infrastructures suffered that are also what i found. on the internet signals as well because japanese phone networks have not been operating very well at all if you try to make a call every five minutes so it cuts out a recorded message says we have it if you will because of the earthquake and it will take a couple of days or so to get that back up and running again with our ivory it's just about five pm over there in the tokyo just tell us what about the people's reaction are people on the streets is it busy or what's what's going on in that

regard. on the streets itself it seems eerily quiet i wouldn't know i mean not being able to fall but it's definitely for five pm normally you would expect it's rush hour coming out of work but actually it's very very quietly on the streets however and my way here from the airport those four and a half hours i was packed in the trains light side things were all because everyone's trying to get away from the airport. it was very very crammed on all the stations well people kept on having to change train because the change trains to stopping because there are concerns over safety also the airport there are several people milling around not really knowing what's going on with the flights a lot of flights were canceled when i arrived i thought it was the only flight actually that had arrived. in the last hour or so it seems we were the only ones in the arrival when we went out into the main airport building into the main concourse so people lying on the floor were sleeping bags clearly the next the last thirty

four hours or so since the earthquake struck because none of the flights going out so on the way from the city to the airport is that. scenes of chaos really crowds and crowds of people i did hear a story from one person on the train from the airport to the center of town he said that it's a fifteen hours yesterday to get from the center of town to the airport by taxing such was this brazen of people in so it gets hurt a skate the city i can. hack you are very much i've heard for that update from the ground in tokyo thank you. well there again we go back to our breaking news just to remind you about what's going on on confirmed reports suggest that there was an explosion at the a nuclear power plant in japan where the several people reported injured there again unconfirmed reports of an explosion but this comes out there's new jobs and use emergencies ministry so that power plant might be going into

a nuclear meltdown the state of emergency has been raised at the those power plants about fifty one thousand people have been evacuated in the immediate vicinity of those power again then there's also fears of us radiation the second leak and the second plant in the fukushima area that's northeast of the capital so again unconfirmed reports of an explosion well this comes of all this is happening in the a nuclear power plants comes after an eight point nine magnitude earthquake and the resulting tsunami japan is still suffering from the effects of both the earthquake aftershocks and the massive tsunami that have been thousands of residents that have been moved and there are fears of a leak again at a second plant nearby will the official death toll that we're getting right now at the moment is about seven hundred but a lot of the local reports media reports claim that thousands are missing because we keep you up to date again on that situation well it's not just japan emergency

services are high alert in russia's far east this is to the north of japan and it's located very close to the area of the a disaster we have a correspondent artie's you've got to be a great show of us she's in the region and she filed this report where we are now in the region in the capital of the region using the civilians that is a little over eight thousand kilometers away from the epicenter from that plant where the accident happened and of course local residents despite authorities are reporting that business goes around as usual and residents are calm they are also a few minutes warring with both by agencies and. by russia's emergency ministry and those who live along the coastline. that is sixty kilometers away from the region's capital they are already urgently moving inland also where the full costs are moved were some of those we have on the queue at islands. we've spoken to say that their

relatives and friends are reporting that waves reached to three meters and along the coast of the island got is eloise following the following friday's disaster and tsunami in japan rescuers have called residents to the coast immediately and to shelter. for cyclone which is the bar above the sea level this region where we are now has a very bad record in terms of say speaker t.v. some of the world's most. disastrous quakes to place here also how you know it was a nine hundred ninety five when it was two thousand people were killed in an earthquake similar to the want to the recent warning japan and also in nine hundred fifty two there was a van soviet union that was a powerful earthquake income childhood which claimed. also lives of thousands of people so the worst people here are now of course of humans who are in the situation to be marginal seat workers are saying that they will also update the local population on the latest and there will be enough time to vacate people leave

if needed. ok breaking news this hour unconfirmed reports suggest there was an explosion at the a nuclear power plant in japan where the several people reportedly injured while tokyo electricity company said that there has been a white smoke seen at ten minutes after the explosion and this congress after the japanese emergencies ministry said fukushima power plant mines would go into a nuclear meltdown at five reactors in two present fukushima by the north east of the country in a. of emergency radiation levels there were reported to be a thousand times normal a thousand times above normal levels after cooling systems were knocked offline caused by b. eight point nine magnitude earthquake that hit on a friday afternoon as well as the massive resulting tsunami in japan is still suffering from be of service station caused by that of thousands of residents have

been moved from within the vicinity of the power plant as well as the coastal areas with the recent reports now the latest number we're getting according to n.h. k. that japanese travel reports of the number of dead has reached one thousand and the number is expected to rise prime minister an autocrat also does not rule out a leak in a second plant close to the first fukushima plant so again official death toll numbers being reported by n.h. k. to be at the thousands more are reportedly missing and might be iffy if feared dead . now that everything that's going on russia says it is ready to help japan in dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake can draw on a wealth of experience in coping with both natural and technological disasters he has more from moscow. but the moment it's hard to even start calculating the damage

done by of this disaster in japan as the whole walled watches these horrific pictures from the country but russia's emergencies ministry has prepared a six jets which are ready to deliver rescuers and doctors medical equipment including a medical morwell hospital to the country all is needed at the moment is a request from japanese authorities these jets have been on standby since friday on the personal order of the president of russia. of course were really to help our neighbors in overcoming the effects of this severe earthquake a state of emergency has also been declared on our soil and the cool islands in the subtle region were all necessary measures must also be taken to prevent damage and loss of life but tsunami has already reached our shores and we must all be consolidated it's time now ordering the emergencies minister to present a plan of assistance to japan. from. unfortunately russia does have the

experience in dealing with such catastrophes both earthquakes if we talk about just the coral islands which are right there in japan's neighborhood located just several miles away from its territories they have been hit by earthquakes previously and russia does have the experience in dealing with a nuclear disasters as well talking about the chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in nineteen eighty six so once again at the moment all is needed for these jets to take off and deliver this heart to japan is an official request from the country's authorities. also experts say that there are similarities of the sure noble disaster with what's happening right now in japan well our correspondent is in ukraine or let's say it a ship skeet he joins us live now alex just tell us how can you compare the issue and mobile incident with what's happening right now in japan. well the only obvious

similarity between the events of twenty five years ago in chernobyl and the one the situation which is now unraveling in japan is basically that the two reactors are experiencing a nuclear meltdown were said to be experiencing a nuclear meltdown this is something that physicists describe as their worst possible nightmare this is when the core of a nuclear reactor goes into an uncontrollable state this eventually leads to a nuclear chain reaction and often in many cases this leads to a powerful steve explosion this is what happened in chernobyl but basically this is where similarities and because the time gap between this start of the fatal experiment in twenty five years ago and the explosion which destroyed the reactor the for power station was only forty nine seconds here in japan of course this situation has been dealt with has been fought with for the last several hours during the night here in europe and this is basically the main difference with the

latest reports both reports by the government that specialist at the station have managed to drop the pressure inside the reactor and the latest breaking news report that unconfirmed reports that there was an explosion at the stations and indeed it is really hard to predict where all this all will go just like twenty five years ago internal nobody knew where it was going to be will we are right we are receiving many different reports concerning the situation it's unfolding right now with people in mind the chernobyl tragedy how should we assess the everything that's going on. well obviously the experience of the trouble fallout is massive for the history of mankind and the history of nuclear physics because nothing like that happens before the trouble fall out there was an incident of course in the united states in the 1980's in that three mile island nuclear power station but that was localized pretty quickly and the chernobyl of course gave lots of experience how to fight this. sort of incidents indeed the biggest problem

twenty five years ago in chernobyl was when the fire was had to be extinguished and they the rescue. people involved in the rescue operation try to extinguish the fire with water and specialist at the site were afraid that another powerful steam explosion might happen and this week would probably lead to more destruction more reactors being damaged and more of course more radiation emitted into the atmosphere this is something of course the japanese specialists must avoid doing according to many experts now talking about this on the internet and also another strategy which was successfully use internet is one of the open reactor was bombarded with. a lead that prevented the spread of radiation into the atmosphere the further spread of the radiation so basically if something happens when you clip our plant if indeed a nuclear accident occurs then

a specialist must just take the chernobyl experience as their main leading experience in fighting this problem and i will thank you very much. there for us in america here in ukraine thank you. again just to give you a recap of breaking news this hour a japanese government official says there's shaking and smoke near the of course she might daiichi plant tokyo electric power company which runs a plan to says some workers were injured after an explosion took place at the plant is said to be facing a possible meltdown earlier in the year japanese men and urgencies ministry said that a power plant might be going into a nuclear meltdown five reactors in two plants in fukushima in the north east of the country have been in a state of emergency. ok well let's go back to our correspondents ivor bennett who is in tokyo for us live or just tell us the latest

from where you are on the ground right now. as i just mentioned the latest breaking news here is that the unconfirmed reports that there has been explosion at the nuclear reactor in fukushima daiichi which is owned by the tokyo electronic power company now japanese media would go on television here showing pictures of white smoke coming out from that nuclear power plant and we don't know exactly what the damage is there but there were fears throughout the last few hours that. the power plant was going it's meltdown it's lost its ability to cool and warning now japanese media is in fact saying that radioactivity in the region has risen since the explosion twenty times and the company that runs the plant at tokyo electric electric power company they say that there have been several injuries to their employees but those are thank you very much for that update we will be going back

to you throughout the day thank you ira bennett who is in tokyo for us. oh just a recap of what's happening breaking news at this hour a japanese government official says there's shaking and smoke near the a fukushima daiichi plant you talk you electric power company which runs the plant says some of the workers were injured after an explosion took place the plant is said to be facing a possible meltdown earlier the japanese emergencies ministry said fukushima power plant might be calling into a nuclear meltdown of this has been a result of eight point nine magnitude earthquake that hit friday you're looking at pictures of the plant there's been a state of emergency issued there about fifty one thousand residents in the immediate vicinity of the plant have been evacuated now this company the electric company owns six reactors will five reactors in two plants over there have been in

a state of emergency looking at the radiation levels this is this is what's been worrying both officials and locals there reported to be a thousand times normal levels of this is because the cooling systems were knocked off by the core of the reactors are still hot although the plant has been have been shut down after the earthquake but the reactors are still hot at the cooling system well functioning is causing this a state of emergency right now well again there's been an eight point nine earthquake causing biz the tsunami that has been resulting in japan is still experiencing the devastation by the tsunami thousands of residents have been moved and according to reports from the japanese leader there are about a thousand dead right now the number is expected to increase and the government said that they have dispatched about fifty thousand troops to areas that are experiencing devastation from the earthquake the tsunami as well as the threat of a nuclear meltdown. if you let your part of the.

world well it's not just japan who is on high alert emergency services in a russia's far east are also on high alert now the russians for is located very close to the area of disaster it's to the north japan are things you copy my grandchildren has the latest from the region where we are now in the region in the capital of the region using the supply lines that is a little over a thousand kilometers away from the epicenter of from that plant where the accident happened and of course local residents despite authorities are reporting that business goes wrong as usual and residents are calm they are constantly in many touring with both by ses me agencies and by russia's emergency ministry and those who live along the coastline. that is sixty kilometers away from the region's capital they are already urgently moving inland also where the full costs are moved who are some of those who live on the cure of island species man who we've spoken

to say that their relatives and friends are opposing the waves reached to three metres and along the coast of the island that is a lot following the following friday's disaster and tsunami in japan rescues of cold and residents to the coast immediately and to shelter at. about thirty forty kilometers the bar about the sea level this region where we are now has a very bad record in terms of say speaker t.v. some of the world's most gruesome and disastrous quakes to place here all supply unit was a nine hundred ninety five when over two thousand people were killed in an earthquake similar to the want to the recent warning japan and also in nine hundred fifty two there was a down soviet union that was a powerful earthquake income childcare which claimed. also lives of thousands of people so the worst people here are now of course of humans who are in the situation don't imagine sea. workers see that it is

a global population believe there will be enough time to make you believe if you need it. well this is going back to our breaking news this hour a japanese government official says they're shaking and smoke near the fukushima daiichi plant this is a plant that has been in a state of emergency after the earthquake and the it took you electric power company which runs the plant says that some workers were injured after an explosion took place these are very latest information details still a trickling in of the plans is said to be a facing a possible meltdown we're now getting reports that at least four people have been injured four people injured because of an explosion being reported at the fukushima plant five reactors in fukushima in the northeast of the country have been in a state of emergency this was announced after an eight point nine earthquake that

hit japan a friday two forty six in the afternoon that's five forty six g.m.t. and after that as a massive tsunami and shoot in the nuclear watch a nuclear alert has been raised by the government since friday radiation levels were reported to be a thousand times normal a levels that is significant a number significantly higher than normal levels after cooling systems were knocked offline well just about you know the power plant has been shut down after the earthquake but the a core of the reactors are still hot and it's a cooling system that's not malfunction and causing this alert now let's go to our correspondent. in light of all of this it's happening we have a lot of correspondents on the field russia says it's ready to help japan in dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake and moscow says it can draw on a wealth of experience in a coping with both natural and technological disasters well one of our

correspondents is reporting from moscow and here is this report. at the moment it's hard to even start calculating the damage gone by of this disaster in japan as the whole world watches these horrific pictures from the country but russia's emergencies ministry has prepared a six jets which are ready to deliver rescuers doctors medical equipment including a medical morwell hospital to the ground all is needed at the moment is a request of from japanese authorities these jets have been on standby since friday on the personal order of the president of russia. of course we're ready to help our neighbors in overcoming the effects of the severe earthquake a state of emergency has also been declared on our soil on the cool island in the whole region is what we're all necessary measures must also be taking to prevent damage and loss of life the tsunami has already reached our shores and we must all

be consolidated time now ordering the emergencies minister to present a plan of assistance. unfortunately russia does have the experience in dealing with such catastrophes both earthquakes if we talk about just the coral islands which are right there in japan's neighborhood located just several miles away from its territories they have been hit by earthquakes previously and russia does have the experience in dealing with a nuclear disasters as well talking about the chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in nineteen eighty six so once again at the moment always needed for these jets to take off and deliver this help to japan is an official request from the country's authorities. ok well let's go about arrival to our correspondent. in tokyo for us. however i can you just bring us the latest on this so worrying

development with the nuclear power plant. latest that i'm hearing is that they're not entirely sure what the cause of this white smoke seen rising from the plant. been shown on japanese t.v. right now government spokesman has said that they're not entirely sure it was caused by an explosion but the worry is that one of the old two of the reactors even out of the five at this plant in fukushima around one hundred sixty miles north of tokyo. the worries that they going into lots. able to cool down radioactive materials that the earthquake yesterday has knocked out the cooling system there and also just hearing a report from a government official there as well that one of the reactors in the back plant has actually had atomic material seeping out from it which is a major concern obviously and now five other reactors are also under a state of emergency again which will insistence there but should there be. a

nuclear disaster there were what could the consequences and what has been the reaction i have how are they gauging the possible consequences of what's currently unfolding. consequences are obviously a massive nuclear fallout and we're hearing already on the wires that so see if you press that radioactive levels in that area around fukushima daiichi that nuclear power plant where there has been a suspected or unconfirmed reports over of an explosion there in video actually levels there have risen thousand times above normal now on the streets here in tokyo i haven't been here long but people seem unperturbed that i've spoken so you at least and that was on a train from the airport people know more about getting to that it's nations here on the streets no one's around so those are the people who lead a city or they simply staying indoors at the moment it seems that is the central

part of uncertainty really here about what's happening in reading on twitter as well people in the north and simply don't really know what's going on they know people in tokyo worried they aren't hearing themselves what the situation is scorched thank you very much for that update tavern ben it's been a talk you know there for us. ok well just a recap breaking news this hour we are getting initial reports that at least four people are said to have been injured following an explosion near the fukushima daiichi plant was like this is still details are still coming in so these are initial reports eyewitnesses of reported shaking and white smoke at the plant is said to be facing a possible meltdown of five reactors in two plants in a fukushima that's in the north east of the country have been in a state of emergency will earlier we were getting reports that radiation levels there were to be a thousand times normal levels that significantly higher than what it should be and

this is after a cooling systems were knocked offline after an eight point nine earthquake that hit japan friday afternoon at two forty six in the afternoon it resulted in a massive tsunami still devastation continuing its fall to thousands of residents have been moved both from the coastal areas affected by the tsunami as well as those residents living within the vicinity of the nuclear plant that is in a state of emergency according to the nuclear safety commission about fifty one thousand residents have been evacuated there are about one thousand three hundred temporary shelters for them now the government has also sent thousands about fifty thousand troops to join the rescue and recovery efforts as for the death toll it's still increasing the numbers we're getting right now from of the japanese reports is it has reached a thousand but there still reports of more missing and more feared dead.